Wayne: Yeah, the PWM is the type charger that my big one is, and I may end up running longer battery cable wires on it, and just using it on it’s 2amp charge rate, because sometimes we go fishing two days in a row, and the 750 milliamps would never have it recharged overnight. The 2 amps does a good job of topping it back off overnight at the rate I usually run the battery down, so that might be my best option. That way the charger could stay in the shed, and just have the battery cables run to the boat. That, or get a good brand of a 2 amp trickle charger and put longer cables on it. Chuck
From: mailto:[email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 6:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish] Trickle charger for my marine deep cycle battery Interesting, at first glance I thought the link said a 5amp hour charger to trickle charge. Yep, 750 milliamp will take a long time! I think Neville is on a better track but this will work. The best battery chargers use PWM (pulse width modulation) which can significantly extended the life of your battery and typically provides the fullest useable charge. I have great success with using pwm chargers with deep cycle batteries and solar power for work applications. Wayne Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chuck Alexander <[email protected]>; To: <[email protected]>; Cc: fly fishing for panfish <[email protected]>; Subject: Re: [VFB] Re: [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish] Trickle charger for my marine deep cycle battery Sent: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 11:39:53 PM Wayne: Thanks a lot. That’s kinda what I thought. Slow like ME. But you gave me a good idea for figure it out. It is rated at .75 amps so wouldn’t it be 105 amp hours divided by .75 which would equal 140 hours (about 6 DAYS) LOL. But I normally don’t run the battery below about 80% which would be 84 ah divided by the .75 amps which would still be 60 hours. Or am I using “common core” mat in which 2+2 does NOT equal 4 ??. You’d think that since I was in an electronics job in the Air Force I’d remember exactly how to figure this stuff but that was 100 yrs ago LOL Thanks again, Chuck From: 'Wayne C Blake Hedges' via VFB Mail Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:19 PM To: mailto:[email protected] ; mailto:[email protected] ; virtual flybox Subject: [VFB] Re: [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish] Trickle charger for my marine deep cycle battery Hi Chuck it should but will take a long time to charge when completely dead. 105 amp hours @ 5 amp hours would require 21 hours from dead to completely charged. Would make a good trickle/maintainer charger I imagine. Wayneb On December 16, 2014, at 6:14 PM, "'Chuck Alexander' [email protected] [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish]" <[email protected]> wrote: Folks: This coming Spring (barring more health problems etc) my wife and I plan to go fishing at LEAST a cpl times per week. My question is about a trickle charger for my deep cycle battery I use to power my trolling motors (we use two to get to where across the lake and back,then the foot controlled one to troll the shoreline hunting for bluegills and/or bass “on the bed”. Anyway,, till now, I have to heft my 50-60 pound battery into my workshop, put it on the 2 amp setting on my 2/6/55/jumpstart big battery charger, then lug it back into the back of the boat to go fishing again. It’s been either that, or risking the charger getting rained on and ruined, or electrocuting somebody. Anyway, this charger from Harbor freight in the hyperlink below is a 3/4 amp trickle charger/maintainer. What I’m wondering is (even if it takes a cpl days to do it) is will this little charger charger my 105 amp hour battery?? The manual with it says it’s for batteries that are from 5 to 125 ah batteries. The 125 is more than the max 105 listed, but I have read where ppl say YES it will charge my battery, and others say NO it won’t. Truth probably lies in the middle as in like I said, I think it will, but may take up to a cpl days to do so, depending on how drained the battery is. Anybody here tried a charger like this?? Reason I want this is because I plan to make a “bass boat” out of my jon boat be decking it with plywood in the front and back, so we have a place to stand up while fishing as my back starts to hurt if I sit all day, so I plan to “permanently” mount this charger on my stern plywood piece, so that all I have to do it run the extension cord to the boat and let er rip. Thanks a lot. 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